Here is the link to the current events article for the homework

https://www.newsweek.com/its-been-327-years-since-salem-witch-trials-fear-ruling-america-again-opinion-1445807


Writing Assignment: 

Choose ONEof these real incidents we discussed in class and use a historical fiction treatment to illustrate the idea of a modern witch hunt: 

• Holocaust/Search for Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, and dissenters of the Nazi regime 

• Treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII/Internment camps

•McCarthyism/Red Scare/Search for Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War 

• Treatment of Muslim Americans during post-9/11 climate of fear

Have a different or better idea? Talk to me and we’ll see if your story idea will work. 

                                                                      

 OR

Please write a one-page response to the article, “It’s been 327…” Do you agree with the writer or is he using hyperbole and history to persuade his readers?